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    This document provides a decision tree to identify different types of figurative language such as similes, metaphors, hyperboles, understatements and personification. It asks a series of yes or no questions about whether a phrase contains comparisons using "like" or "as", exaggerates too much or too little, or attributes human characteristics to non-human things.

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    This document provides a decision tree to identify different types of figurative language such as similes, metaphors, hyperboles, understatements and personification. It asks a series of yes or no questions about whether a phrase contains comparisons using "like" or "as", exaggerates too much or too little, or attributes human characteristics to non-human things.

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    This document provides a decision tree to identify different types of figurative language such as similes, metaphors, hyperboles, understatements and personification. It asks a series of yes or no questions about whether a phrase contains comparisons using "like" or "as", exaggerates too much or too little, or attributes human characteristics to non-human things.

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    How to

    Identify
    Figurative
    Language
    Is it a comparison between two things?

    Yes No
    Does it use “like” or “as”? Are they exaggerating
    too much or too little?
    Yes No
    Yes No
    Simile Metaphor
    Object or idea doing
    ?
    human things?
    Too Much? Too Little?
    No Yes
    Hyperbole Understatement
    Personification

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